Non-muslims around the world Â reject honour killings, child-marriage, extortion, stoning of women, jihad, terror and genocide, all of which are as Islamic as the profit Muhammad himself. Â You gotta be a Muslim or a progressive loon to insist that all these people, billions of them, are in need of psychiatric treatment, or need to undergo “sensitivity training” in some reeducation camp to cure their“irrational fear of Islam”, that imaginary “phobia”.

However, conflating criticism of Islam with racism has wrecked every civil discourse about an ideology in the guise of religion that needs to be debated openly without fear or favours. Nowhere is this more apparent today than in once great Britain, where the institutions Â are paralysed in fear of being called “racist”.

“I have quoted from the main juristic schools of Islam or ‘Hadith’ taught by the great Imams like the hanafis, Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanbali and from the prophet’s Sunnah to prove that Islam stands for love, peace, forbearance, mercy and human dignity.”–Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

“Terrorism and violence cannot be permissible in Islam,”Tahir ul Qadri told CNN’s Islam-hustling Christiane Amanpour in 2010 after declaring a Fartwa on terrorism.

Apparently, for a progressive “pro-Palestinian” activist like Ali Abunimah, there is nothing wrong with the reign of terror and destruction imposed by Islamists in Mali – but when a western country helps the armed forces of Mali to drive the Islamist terror groups back, it’s time to express outrage.

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter;—Qur’anÂ 5:33

The pro-Sharia forces in Mali need not worry. A few casualties, a few hostages, a few corpses dragged through the streets, and the French will go away, and Sharia will prevail. “France launches air strikes in Mali against Islamist rebels,”by Elizabeth Pineau and Bate Felix forÂ Reuters, January 11 via JW.

(Reuters) – France carried out air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali on Friday as it began a military intervention intended to halt a drive southward by the militants who control the country’s desert north.

“We’re proud to live in a country where even someone in John’s position, an inmate in a prison, could get heard in court on the right to pray,” saidÂ Lindh’s father, Frank Lindh, during a phone interview from his office in San Francisco. Â Â “Today I feel proud to be an American.”

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) â€” An American convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban must be allowed to pray daily in a group with other Muslim inmates at his high-security prison in Indiana, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Barring John Walker Lindh and his fellow Muslims from engaging in daily group ritual prayer violates a 1993 law that bans the government from curtailing religious speech without showing a compelling interest, U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson ruled.

The judge blocked the prison from enforcing its ban on daily group prayer, but she noted that her ruling does not prohibit the prison from taking less restrictive security measures.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett, whose office represented the prison, said Friday that prosecutors were considering their next step, including a possible appeal.

Piers Morgan isn’t the only CNN host pushing a ban on semi-automatic guns. Fareed Zakaria hammered “anomalous” U.S. gun laws on Thursday afternoon and pointed to other countries for the strict gun control that America should strive for.

“And I think that Sandy Hook has been a huge turning point and there is a shift of consciousness.We are becoming more aware of just how anomalous the U.S. is,” said the host of CNN’s foreign affairs showÂ Fareed Zakaria GPS. “So the real challenge here is going to be to take this shift in national consciousness and actually drive it through to make it a shift in policy.“ [Video below the break. AudioÂ here.] Â Â Read More